D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

Why should beauty be suspect?

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.